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Table 4 GP research capacity and trial participation

From: A qualitative study exploring the acceptability of the McNulty-Zelen design for randomised controlled trials evaluating educational interventions

Z14, GP: “There’s also kind of competing interests of a day to day job that increasingly sort of jam packed. And with the best will in the world you sometimes look at things already sent to them and think oh that looks like a really useful thing to … fill in or contribute to. Actually you may not actually get around to it,- so I suppose this is at least one way of ensuring participation of the people you’re trying to look at”

 

Z2, PRACTICE MANAGER: “It is possible I’d have chuckled and said oh we haven’t got time to do that because that is very much how that’s my first thought is time. … I think the answer to that would have to be, it depends and I’m sorry it’s not a clear answer but we make a decision at this moment in time based on a whole kind of factors, so at the time when we received the information we would have sat down and decided whether that was the right thing for the practice.”

 

Z15, NURSE: “I might have said oh no not another trial, I haven’t got time! But in actual fact it didn’t involve us doing anything did it?”

 

Z12, NURSE: “But whether or not the doctor would have agreed to it would have been [the deciding thing] he more than likely discouraged it because of time, and if he’d have to get involved personally would have probably declined it because of his time”